Coffee is the most important thing for developers. Yet, good coffee. At conferences it is almost vital to have a good coffee during the breaks and talk to experts. For this reason, MAYFLOWER will have a Coffee Lounge at the International PHP Conference in Mainz (Germany): Get coffee en masse for your business card.

Developers with lots of different specialties will be there on topics like web security, moving your applications to PHP5, getting the best performance out of your apps and the Zend Framework.

Media Ventures is one of the leading independent corporate venture capital companies in Germany. We invest with success in young media and technology enterprises. Success stories like germany's biggest internet dating platform neu.de or the online travel agency weg.de demonstrate how we support companies and their founders to succeed.

Our software development department supports start-ups and established enterprises in technical advancement of online platforms and implements new ideas in internal projects. An important aspect of our work is our own open source PHP framework based on the Zend Framework.

We are looking for senior software developers to join our team. You will work on online projects, designing and implementing object oriented software modules in PHP5 for scalable web applications. You are familiar with social networks, weblogs and web services and eager to bring in your experience and ideas. As an experienced programmer you are able to guide colleagues with less experience.

Required:

• 3+ years experience in web application development
• Excellent knowledge of OOP and object-oriented softwaredesign with design patterns
• Knowledge of UML
• Hands-on experience with PHP5, sophisticated application as reference
• Knowledge of SQL and database design
• Strong communicator, team player
• Experience with Linux
• Experience with VCS, preferable Subversion
• Good command of English and German
• Goal-oriented, reliable, able to work under pressure
• Eager to learn about new web technologies
• Experience with Unit Tests, pereferable PHPUnit
• Experience with scalable web applications

Pluses:

• Zend Framework
• MySQL
• Javascript
• Understanding of web services und syndication
• Interest in social networking, blogging technologies and recommendation systems
• Drupal

If you want to show us some code you are proud of, feel free to append it to your application.

Please submit your application to jobs [at] mediaventures [dot] de or

Media Ventures GmbH
Wesselinger Strasse 22-30
50999 Cologne
Germany

• Tobias Schlitt's State of eZ Components and Database Abstraction with eZ Components, 6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes
• Stefan Priebsch - What's new in PHP 5.3?, Beyond MVC - Enterprise PHP Patterns
• Sebastian Bergmann - Understanding the PHP Object Model, Hamcrest
• Thorsten Rinne - Stateful SOAP Webservices, Migration Concepts for Enterprise PHP applications, High Security PHP Applications

This year's conference included speakers like Sebastian Bergmann, Andreas Ecker, Johann-Peter Hartmann, Robert Lemke and Tobias Schlitt. As more slides are added (and summaries blogged), keep an eye on this post for updates.

• Tobias Schlitt's State of eZ Components and Database Abstraction with eZ Components, 6 essential PHP development tools in 60 minutes
• Stefan Priebsch - What's new in PHP 5.3?, Beyond MVC - Enterprise PHP Patterns
• Sebastian Bergmann - Understanding the PHP Object Model, Hamcrest
• Thorsten Rinne - Stateful SOAP Webservices, Migration Concepts for Enterprise PHP applications, High Security PHP Applications

This year's conference included speakers like Sebastian Bergmann, Andreas Ecker, Johann-Peter Hartmann, Robert Lemke and Tobias Schlitt. As more slides are added (and summaries blogged), keep an eye on this post for updates.

Yet another PHP TestFest call, this time for the Munich area (and even for all Southern Germany). Johannes and I are trying to organize one or more TestFest days. No PHP internal knowledge is required (like C knowledges), all you need is willing to help to improve PHP and a good mood

You can find out more information on what the TestFest is on its page on the qa.php.net website and, if you're not in the southern Germany area and still want to participate, check out the list of other events organized all around the world - there might be one near you.

With Jimdo we're offering a website-creation service that's very easy to use. The usability concept, the graphical flexibility and the way it works with content are the strengths of Jimdo. We launched Jimdo in February 2007, hit the 10,000 users after only ten weeks, and are experiencing exponential growths. It's just great to see how the users are using the product and how they evidently recommend it to many of their friends. That's the biggest compliment for us - and our motivation to make Jimdo a better experience every day, by keeping the innovation speed very high. We just can't wait to see Jimdo evolve.

Working at Jimdo gives you all the freedom a small and very fast- growing start-up has to offer! We're a team of highly motivated young guys and girls who enjoy creating a superior service for our users. Our backgrounds are quite different - everyone is an expert in a certain field. Together we're a very creative team and enjoy working on a product that even our mothers use. We're not satisfied until we're proud of what we created. No matter whether it's a new usability concept, a new feature or a new cooperation model.

Jimdo seeks for an experienced developer to join our core development team. The position is full-time and is based in our office in Hamburg, Germany.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core software components using php
• Participate in software design and code reviews
• Identify and communicate best practices
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability and stability in our application

Requirements

• expert on object oriented programming (PHP5)
• MySQL expert
• preferably knowledge of design patterns
• preferrably linux knowledge
• ability to work efficiently and pragmatically.

Give Pages to the People? Please send your application via e-mail only to jobs@jimdo.com. Your contact person is Christian.

Today I have a little different blog entry for you: On behalf of the PHP Usergroup Hamburg I'm announcing the first PHP Unconference in Hamburg, Germany! The event will take place on May 5th and 6th, at the facilities of the local University (which kindly acts as a co-organizer of the event).

The idea behind the "unconference" is that only one track of talks with really be given in one of the three rooms, but more spontaneous talks in the other rooms are encouraged. Entry will cost 20 Euro (with another 20 getting you lunch for each day) and students at the university will get in free. Rooms will not be provided, so those attending without a place to stay will need to find one on their own.

For the latest updates on the conference, be sure to check out their website.

I will present two sessions, "Testen von PHP-Anwendungen mit PHPUnit 3" and "Graph-Oriented Programming with PHP", at this year's Spring Edition of the International PHP Conference that takes place in Ludwigsburg, Germany (near Stuttgart) from May 21 to May 23 2007.

Check out the conference website for more of the great speakers that will be presenting at this three day conference, including Tobias Schlitt, Ben Ramsey, Glen Campbell (Yahoo! Inc), and Dustin Whittle (Symfony Project).